Short biography
Isabelle Vernos obtained a PhD in Biology from the University Autonoma of Madrid in 1989. She was a postdoc first in Cambridge (UK) and then EMBL (Heidelberg), becoming staff scientist in1996. In 2001, she established an independent research group as team leader at EMBL. In 2005, she obtained an ICREA Research Professor position to join the Cell and Developmental Biology program at the CRG. She is EMBO member since 2005. She was a member of the ERC Scientific Council in 2011-2019 and chaired its Gender Balance working group in 2013-2019. From 2012 to 2015, she was a member of the Advisory Board for Science, Technology and Innovation for the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity. Isabelle Vernos has published more than 90 research papers and reviews in high impact international journals.
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